ICSLP '98

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CALL FOR PAPERS
FOR THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING
ICSLP '98

Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre
November 30th - December 4th 1998

The ICSLP '98 conference will continue the eight year tradition of the
ICSLP series in bringing together professionals from all the diverse
disciplines that contribute to Spoken Language Processing. It will be the
premier international display of the state-of-the-art in this broad field
in 1998. The conference will build bridges between people and
sub-disciplines in order to create and nurture synergies that are important
for the future of the field.

Keynote presentations and other plenary events which bring both experience
and vision of multi-disciplinary attacks on grand challenges in spoken
language processing in both humans and machines will contribute to our
aims. A student day at which full-time student registrants may present
their ideas under the guidance of senior mentors is also planned. However,
it is the quality of the delegate presentations which will be the major
factor in making ICSLP '98 a truly landmark event. This call for papers
offers to you the opportunity to be a part of this significant event.

CO-SPONSORING SOCIETIES

Acoustical Society of America
Acoustical Society of China
Acoustical Society of Japan
Acoustical Society of Korea
Association for Computational Linguistics
Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
Audiological Society of Australia Inc.
Australian Linguistic Society
European Speech Communication Association
IEEE Signal Processing Society
International Phonetic Association
International Society for Phonetic Sciences

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Souguil J.M. Ann, Seoul National University, Korea
Jens P. Blauert, Ruhr-Universitaet, Germany
Michael Brooke, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Timothy Bunnell, University of Delaware, USA
Anne Cutler, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
Hiroya Fujisaki, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
Julia Hirschberg, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA
Bjorn Granstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Roger Moore, Defence Research Authority, United Kingdom
John J. Ohala, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Louis C.W. Pols, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Christel Sorin, Centre Nationale d'Etude des Telecommunications, France
Yoh'ichi Tohkura, ATR, Japan
Jialu Zhang, Academia Sinica, China

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

Tour Hosts Conference & Exhibition Organisers
GPO Box 128
SYDNEY NSW 2000
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 2 9262 2277
Fax: +61 2 9262 3135
Email: icslp98 at tourhosts.com.au

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Submissions are invited in any of the following technical topic areas:

A. Human Speech Production, Acoustic-Phonetics and Articulatory Models
B. Human Speech Perception
C. Language Acquisition: First and Second Languages
D. Spoken Language and Dialogue Modelling; Dialogue Systems
E. Isolated Word Recognition
F. Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
G. Utterance Verification and Word Spotting
H. Speaker Adaptation and Normalisation in Speech Recognition
I. Speaker and Language Recognition; Dialects and Speaking Styles
J. Multilingual Perception and Recognition
K. Signal Processing, Speech Analysis and Feature Extraction
L. Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments
M. Hidden Markov Model Techniques
N. Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Algorithms
O. Spoken Language Understanding Systems
P. Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Q. Prosody and Emotion; Focus, Stress and Accent
R. Speech Coding
S. Spoken Language Generation Systems; Concept-to-Speech
T. Spoken Language Translation Systems
U. Analysis of Speech and Hearing Disorders
V. Speech Processing for the Speech-impaired and Hearing-impaired
W. Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora
X. Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interfaces
Y. Spoken Language Processing and Multimodality
Z. Other Areas of Spoken Language Processing

FORMAT OF SUBMISSION

Acceptance of papers for presentation at the conference will be on the
basis of reviewed summaries. You should submit a summary of your paper
comprising approximately 500 words. At the top of the page, please specify
the following:

Corresponding Author contact details:

•Full Name •Full Postal Mail Address •Email Address •Fax Number •Phone
Number

Proposed Paper details:

•Paper Title •Author List •Topic ID (A-Z) •Four additional keywords
•Presentation preference (oral, poster, student day)

The Topic ID should be a single category from the topic list specified as
an alphabetic letter; if your submission falls within the broad area of
spoken language processing but is not explicitly represented in the topic
list, please use the Z category. The four additional keywords are requested
in order to assist the programme committee in assigning reviewers.

MEANS OF SUBMISSION

Electronic submission of summaries via the World Wide Web is preferred. A
Summary Submission Form is available via URL =
http://cslab.anu.edu.au/icslp98 . Alternatively, a pro-forma for email
submission can be obtained from this URL or by emailing
icslp98 at tourhosts.com.au . Email submissions should be sent to
icslp98 at one.net.au . If electronic submission is not possible, postal
submissions (4 copies) to the ICSLP '98 Secretariat address specified below
will be accepted provided that they adhere to the above format. Please do
NOT fax submissions.

RESTRICTIONS ON SUBMISSIONS

Please note that only ASCII summaries written in English will be accepted.
Do not include any attachments, graphics, or embedded formatting commands.
Given the large number of submissions we expect to receive, anything that
cannot be printed directly will be rejected without consideration.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT

You should receive an acknowledgment of receipt within 72 hours of
electronically submitting your summary. If this does not happen, then you
should resend your submission by email to icslp98 at one.net.au   with the
word RESUBMISSION at the beginning of the subject line. If an
acknowledgment is still not forthcoming, an email problem should be
assumed, and the summary submitted by fax. Please do not resubmit or send
by fax for any other reasons than lack of acknowledgment from the
conference.

CONDITIONS OF ACCEPTANCE

All papers must be presented in English by one of the listed authors. That
author will be required to register no later than the full-paper submission
date.
Summaries will not be accepted after the submission date.

STUDENT DAY SUBMISSIONS

Students wishing to submit papers for the SST Student Day should submit
summaries as above. These submissions will be separately reviewed and
published under the banner of the 7th Australian Speech Science &
Technology Conference and will also be included on the CDROM containing the
ICSLP '98 proceedings.

SUBMISSION ADDRESSES

World Wide Web: URL = http://cslab.anu.edu.au/icslp98

E-mail Submission: icslp98 at one.net.au

Postal: ICSLP '98 Secretariat, GPO Box 128, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia

Technical queries: Robert Dale - email: rdale at mpce.mq.edu.au

General Information: Email: icslp98 at tourhosts.com.au

IMPORTANT DATES

Friday 1st May, 1998 Paper summaries due for review

Friday 26th June, 1998 Acceptance notification

Friday 21st August, 1998 Deadline for full-paper submission